Improvement in ax-helve shield



UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

JOHN M. LARSH, OF ORAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT m AX-HELVE SHIELD.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 189, I09, dated April 3, 1877 application filed March 12, 1877.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN M. LARSH, of'

dies at their point of connection with the eye of the ax, and adding a reserve effect to the force of the ax, however used; the object being to prevent the handle from being bruised and splintered, and increase the efficiency of the ax by a device with a sharpened edge set on the handle next the ax, in manner to serve as a supplemental bit.

Figure l is a side elevation of the instrumeut or shield. Fig. 2 is an end elevation. Fig. 3 is a representation of the shield set on the ax-handle, with the ax as when in use.

The shield is constructed in one piece, which may be of steel or any other metal or composition of metals suitable for the purpose of the invention, with an eye through it for the purpose of attachment to an ax-handle, and of shape similar to the representation in Figs.

The eye of the shield may be of capacity suitable to the ax and ax-handle to which application may be made. The shield is put on the handle above and next to the ax, as shown in Fig. 3 of the annexed drawing.

I claim- As an article of manufacture, the ax-helve shield having an edge forminga supplementary bit, substantially as described and shown.

JOHN M. LARSH. Witnesses:

JAS. LEE, H. R. TINsLEY. 

